Some quick backstory:

In 1969, Fred Rogers appeared before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Communications. His goal was to support funding for PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in response to significant proposed cuts by President Nixon.

I was reading an article here regarding some relatively unknown facts about the late Fred Rogers, and was thinking to myself that “Man, this dude was a bad ass.”  I went looking for some video footage of Mr. Rogers speaking in front of Congress, and found the following footage.